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TOM CONTI to star in Twelve Angry Men in Glasgow this June

TWELVE ANGRY MEN get set to give their verdict
at the Theatre Royal Glasgow from Monday 22 until Saturday 27
June 2015. Seven of the West End cast have re-joined the acclaimed production
following its record-breaking run at London’s Garrick Theatre.

Olivier Award winner, Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee TOM
CONTI returns asjuror number 8, the role made
famous by Henry Fonda. Tom is one of the most respected and celebrated actors
of his generation - unforgettable as the leading man in hit films such as Merry
Christmas Mr Lawrence and Shirley Valentine. He
will be joined by new jury member ANDREW LANCEL, best known for
playing the villainous businessman Frank Foster in Coronation Street.
And taking their places on the jury once more are ROBERT DUNCAN, best
known for hisrole as the as
jargon-spouting chief executive Gus Hedges in Drop The Dead Donkey, ANDREW FRAME, who starred as P.C Hargreaves in
EastEnders, DAVID CALVITTO, whose many theatre credits include These
Shining Lives and The Odd Couple, MARK CARTER, whose
TV credits include Hollyoaks, Utopia and The Knock and SEAN
POWER, who starred in ITV’s Secret Diary of a Call Girland Fright
Night 2.JON CARVER, who has had a recurring role in Doctors,
returns to play The Guard.

Forming the rest of the jury will be DENIS
LILL, who starred in The Royal and Only Fools And
Horses, PAUL BEECH, whose theatre credits includeKing
Lear and A Tale of Two Cities, ALEXANDER FORSYTH, who
has starred in stage productions of Porcelain and It
Never Ends,EDWARD HALSTED, who starred in Holby City and
Jonathan Creek, and GARETH DAVID-LLOYD, who is best known for
his roleas Ianto Jones in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood.

Lauded as one of the great ‘must-see’ movies of all
time, Reginald Rose’s TWELVE ANGRY MEN originated as a
television play and has been successfully adapted for film, radio and stage.
The 1957 Academy Award nominated film version starred and was
produced by Henry Fonda. This production is directed by Christopher Haydon,
Artistic Director of The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill.

TWELVE ANGRY MEN follows twelve jurors who have murder on their minds and a life in
their hands as they decide the fate of a young delinquent accused of killing
his father. But what appears to be an open and shut case soon becomes a
dilemma for the twelve, as their prejudices and preconceived ideas about the
accused, the trial and each other turn the tables every which way, until the
nail-biting climax...